Pros
The freedom to not apply and ability to walk away before you regret accepting a job. Odds are, you’ll be hired. Staying a year, not likely. You’ll quit or be fired. That’s your two choices. Witnessed this in reality over and over.
Cons
Advice: DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CURRENT JOB FOR ANY JOB AT PMA. Shockingly high turnover. Very poor leadership at HQ. They even fire their own family. Most of employees I started with are now gone. And that is around 60 to 70 or more employees. The same for their home office and most of their depots. The Senior Managers blame local managers for poor leadership. When in fact, as the reviews prove, it’s senior managers that are poor leaders. It doesn’t take long or a genius to figure this out quickly. Family is stressed, it’s a facade. Family is not first, work is first regardless of how long or impossible your objectives are. They give high salaries, as the high turnover suggest, it appears there is no intention of keeping people to pay that out. Statistically, the long term employees are very few. You’ll be lucky to survive one year, every year thereafter the survival rate gets lower. Employees are constantly subjected to recon. Even if they are not sure, they will deduct your paycheck and figure it out later. Horrible ties in the community. Family not allowed unless you’re in upper management. Inconsistent in following policies. Loose canon leadership. If you’re on an account and that account is lost, normally by understaffing, poor hiring, poor training, which happens because they are desperate, so almost everyone is hired, you will be blamed for the loss of the account. It’s not required to be guilty of anything. You will be the fall person and will be written up and if it happens again, likely fired. Never mind the fact that you don’t staff the department or have control over it. PMA is hated by so many businesses and it becomes an embarrassment to you! They depend and rely on the National Pepsi name. PMA is a franchise, not Pepsi cola. Read the reviews, poor leadership, long hours, work like a dog and turnover is a constant in most of the reviews! Ask yourself, why so many people say it. There are so many wrongs with this company I could write for hours. Do your homework, then come to your own conclusions. You’ll find, I’m spot on!